Missing mother and daughters from Crestwood Illinois

Update: The family have been found. They ran out of gas and were located at about 10 a.m. today in Macomb, about 240 miles of southwest of Chicago. . The mother was taken to a hospital for psychiatric evaluation, and the three children are in protective custody.

One of the missing daughters of a missing mom sent a chilling text message to their grandmother,

“Hi mom mom. We are not having Easter because God told mommy not to. Also, Happy Easter. But guess what if you don’t do Easter you get to see God.”

That is the last that anyone has heard from the Owens family, Madison Owens, 11, Kristen and Nicole, 9, and their mother, Stephanie Register Owens.

Police consider them endangered and missing and are looking for them and/or the car they are driving, a 1996 silver Lexus with Illinois license plates L321854.

The car was spotted in Abingdon, about an hour from the Iowa/Illinois border, and at Streator and in Canton.

If you see them or the vehicle, please call the Crestwood Police Department (Illinois) 1-708-385-5131 .Click here to read more about this story.